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ApPENDIX II<br />
ipsum in prredicta forma conspicit,<br />
appellabit illum nomine suo,<br />
inquiens: Tu vero es Asmoday. Ipse<br />
non negabit: Et mox ad terram.<br />
Dat annulum virtu tum: Docet<br />
absolute Geometriam,<br />
Arithmeticam, Astronomiam,<br />
Mechanicam: Ad interrogata plene<br />
& vere respondet: Hominem<br />
reddit invisibilem: Loca<br />
thesaurorum ostendit & custodit,<br />
si fuerit de legionibus Amaymonis.<br />
In sua potestate legiones<br />
septuaginta duas habet.<br />
§ 36. Gaap, alias Tap, Prreses<br />
magnus & Princeps: in signa<br />
Meridiei apparet: sed quum<br />
humanam assumit faciem, ductor<br />
est prsecipuorum quatuor regum,<br />
tam potens ut Byleth. Extiterunt<br />
autem quidam necromantici, qui<br />
huic libamina & holocausta<br />
obtulere, & ut eundem evocarent,<br />
artem exercuere, dicentes<br />
sapientissimum Salomonem earn<br />
composuisse, quod falsum est: imo<br />
fuit Cham filius Noe, qui primus<br />
post diluvium ccepit malignos<br />
invocare spiritus, invocavit autem<br />
Byleth, & composuit artem in suo<br />
nomine, & librum, qui multis<br />
mathematicis est cognitus. Fiebant<br />
autem holocausta, libamina,<br />
rnunera, & multa nefaria, qure<br />
operabantur exorcistre admistis<br />
sanctissimis Dei nominibus, qure<br />
243<br />
exorcist shalbe deceived by Amaymon in<br />
everie thing. But so soone as he seeth him<br />
in the forme aforesaid, he shall call him<br />
by his name, saieng; Thou art Asmoday;<br />
he will not denie it, and by and by he<br />
boweth downe to the ground; he giveth<br />
the ring of venues, he absolutelie teacheth<br />
geometrie, arythmetike, astronomie, and<br />
handicrafts [mechanics]' To all demands<br />
he answereth fullie and trulie, he maketh<br />
a man invisible, he sheweth the places<br />
where treasure lieth, and gardeth it, if it<br />
be among the legions ofAmaymon, he<br />
hath under his power seventie two legIOns.<br />
(36) Gaap, alias Tap, a great president<br />
and a prince, he appeareth in a<br />
meridionall signe, and when he taketh<br />
humane shape he is the guide of the foure<br />
principall kings, as mightie as Bileth.<br />
There were certeine necromancers that<br />
offered sacrifices and burnt offerings unto<br />
him; and to call him up, they exercised an<br />
art, saieng that Salomon the wise made it.<br />
Which is false: for it was rather Cham,<br />
the sonne of Noah, who after the £loud<br />
began first to invocate wicked spirits. He<br />
invocated Bileth, and made an art in his<br />
name, and a booke which is knowne to<br />
manie mathematicians.2 There were burnt<br />
offerings and sacrifices made, and gifts<br />
given, and much wickednes wrought by<br />
the exorcists, who mingled therewithall<br />
the holie names of God, the which in<br />
that art are everie where expressed. Marie<br />
[Certainly] there is an epistle of those<br />
names written by Salomon, as also write<br />
2 The reference is probably to the Book ofBilt (or Bilath), see Hermann Gollancz,<br />
Sepher Maphteah She!amah (London: Oxford University Press, 1914), fo1. 42a-46a. It<br />
also occurs in British Library Oriental MS 14759.
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